Everton (H) - Thu 26th Dec '24, 12:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[RayCTID]

U been hammering the ale mate?

It is either that or the Alka-Seltzer

 

[Oldham Exile]

Keep Ortega in please keep Rico right back play ake lb and gvardiol akanji cb .Try simpson pusey defensive mid he has the size and can tackle and win the ball which is what we are lacking .Then kovacic and Bernardo next to him.Play doku and saviniho wide with foden att mid and the viking up top.

Like it

 

[mosssideblue]

Like it

All 12 of them

 

[PragueBlue]

All 12 of them

And even then it looks pretty poor.

 

[Durutti City]

I'm going for 3-0, City.

 

[marco]

i had this fixture down a while ago as the one where our form changes, 3-1

 

[kaz7]

Pep has done a presser , no injury updates apart from john is not fit, he did say he has no defence though , they have had two days off and will get together and spend the night at a hotel tonite , hopefully that will get them bonded again

Breaking this losing spell is the only aim tomorrow

 

[AliBobbyJ]

There's something irresistibly old-fashioned about the Boxing Day fixture, though I bet modern players would be glad to bin it off and have the time at home. Brings back memories of getting the bus to the match after all the Christmas Day stuff and always makes me think of one year in particular, one I've posted about before but which absolutely fascinates me for how it evokes a vanished era. 1947, I think (just before my time),Frank Swift's City played Plymouth Argyle home and away on the 25th and 26th. Love the story of the players getting the midnight train down from what was then London Road station and traveling overnight down to Devon with the Plymouth team on the same train. A train on Christmas Day, just fancy! And not in sleeper cars, mind, but all sitting up in the compartments and stretching their legs in the corridors as they rolled through the night with "Taunton" and "Newton Abbott" going by the windows.

Apologies for repeating this same bit of nostalgia if you've read this before but for younger bluemooners here's a little bit of history. Oh, and God bless us, every one!

 

[bladdered]

Can't beat a Boxing Day fixture at home. The King in 1977 will never be surpassed. C'mon blues!

 

[marco]

Can't beat a Boxing Day fixture at home. The King in 1977 will never be surpassed. C'mon blues!

bloody well missed it,sat on the hard shoulder of the M6